Love Letter To My Library

a tribute to great non-fiction books across multiple genres

  • About Me
  • About the Site
  • Twitter
  • > > > Home

“Bonk”

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach is typical of her other books: it’s full of fun, interesting science, and is a little bit of crazy and a lot of hilarity. Having already traveled to the morgue and outer space with Roach, I was more than enthusiastic to follow her into […]

Posted in "PopSci", », Biological Science, History of Science, Medical Science, Pop Culture, Science Tagged Alfred Kinsey, anatomy, fertility, gender issues, hormones, impotence, Mary Roach, Masters & Johnson, medicine, porn star, psychology, science, science history, scientific research, scientist, sex, sexual dysfunction, sexuality, sociology Leave a comment

Good Books: Science

There are a lot of great books that I’ve read in the past that I want to give a quick nod to. Eventually, I may go back and write a dedicated entry for any I re-read them. In the meantime, I feel I owe them a few words here: The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum […]

Posted in "PopSci", », African-American Studies, Biography, Biological Science, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Crime, History of Science, Medical Science, Science, Technology Tagged abnormalities, Apache, autopsy, blindness, brain, brain mapping, cadaver, cadaver research, cancer, cognitive science, computers, CSI, Deborah Blum, DNA, Eric Raymond, ethics, evolution, exploration, forensics, free software foundation, genes, genetics, Glyn Moody, GNU, hacker, Haiti, HeLa, Henrietta Lacks, infectious disease, Linus Torvolds, Linux, Mars, Mary Roach, medical care, medicine, MIT, murder, NASA, neo-darwinian, Netscape, neurology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Oliver Sacks, open source, origin of life, pain, patient consent, patient rights, Paul Farmer, Perl, phantom limb, photography, poison, prohibition, radium, Ramachandran, Rebecca Skloot, research, Richard Dawkins, Richard Stallman, Rwanda, sex, software, space, Stanley Burns, Tracy Kidder, tuberculosis, V.S. Ramachandran Leave a comment

    I LOVE NON-FICTION!

    I am always looking for good non-fiction books to read! Please leave me suggestions in the comments here.

    Recent Reviews

    • “Moonwalking with Einstein”
    • “On the Warrior’s Path”
    • “Breakthrough”
    • “The Rebbe’s Army”
    • “Charlatan”

    Genres & Themes

    Search

    WordPress Theme Custom Community 2 developed by Macho Themes